| Welcome to the art room! |  |  | | First grade student learning about warm and cool colors. |
Students will visit the art room everyday for two calendar weeks, then switch with the physical education class. Each class is 50 minutes in length.
First grade students start their learning with the Elements and Principles of Art. Each unit of study focuses on how art effects the students in relation to their world. They discuss the differences in art work from many cultures and places. Each lesson allows the students to start to explore different medium and techniques.
Grades two through six begin their year reviewing  | | Fifth grade students showing the fun side of placing tiles. |
the Elements of Art. This year they started with their own name as the main subject for their beginning. They had to then add to their name with everything done in a minimum of four times. This is on display in the main hallway.
Once complete, the students started learning about art throughout history, beginning with Cave Art. As the students learn about different time periods, they take a look around the world and see how art evolves through time and with different cultures.
Each grade level will stop ten to fifteen times throughout history  | | Guest artist, John Acosta, working with our fourth grade students. |
to learn about these time periods and will be given an assignment to complete. The basic requirements are given, while the students help to create the rubric for grading their art work. Students will also highlight what state standards they accomplish with each assignment.
Galtier has been fortunate enough to have brought in two Artists in Residence to help the students get a more in-depth focus on certain techniques. Here we have John Acosta, from COMPAS, working with our fourth and fifth grade students learn about mosaic tile work.
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